Flowers in the Winter

Dear Layla and Noah,


I can't believe the daffodils have already bloomed!! They've been out for weeks now and I have been itching to do a little photo shoot with them.  Today was the day! Noah, you were more interested in crunching the dry leaves.  Layla, you were ran from flower patch to flower patch, picking several of them. 


We managed to get a few great shots, but my favorites are of you two sitting in the front seat of the car.  I giggle each time I look at them. 


Love,
Mommy

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Valentine's Day

Dear Layla and Noah,


Right after Christmas, like literally the day after Christmas, I found the most adorable matching outfits for Valentine's Day.  I was so excited about them!! I imagined dressing the two of you in the sweet outfits and getting a great, frame-able picture. 


It was a lot harder than I had anticipated.


Love,
Mommy

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Hair-Do!

Dear Layla,


People always comment about your hair.  Sometimes they talk about how long it is, or how you have such pretty curls, or how you have great volume.  I've even been told that you look like you are wearing a wig because you have so much hair. :)


One of your favorite things is to have me blow-dry your hair.  Nevermind the fact that your hair is always bone dry when my dryer is out.  I think you just like feeling the wind in your hair.


Love, 
Mommy


P.S. - The loud noise in the background is Daddy in the shower.  Just ignore that.

Getting Dressed

Dear Layla,

I've been trying to teach you how to put on your pants on for a few days now.  If "pulling up your pants" means grabbing them at the leg openings and yanking them up to your knees, then you have already succeeded.  

Love,
Mommy

Noah is One-Half!

Dear Noah,


You are officially 1/2! Happy 6 months Little Man! 

To celebrate, we took you to Muddy's Bake Shop for your first ever cupcake.  I just love that place.  They are a local bakery with a great atmosphere.  They sell a variety of desserts, coffee, Coke in glass bottles, and other goodies.  My favorite cupcake is the Pucker Up.  It's lemon cake with lemon icing and surprisingly it's not super lemony.  


They were all sold out of the Pucker Up cupcakes when we got there so I ended up with a Prozac (chocolate cake/chocolate icing) and you got a Classic (vanilla cake/chocolate icing).  


You were not impressed. Perhaps next time you will need to try a Plain Jane (Vanilla/Vanilla) or a Capote (Chocolate/vanilla) or a Grasshopper (chocolate/peppermint) or a Chocodoodle (chocolate/cinnamon brown sugar) or . . . or. . . . oh, who am I kidding???  We will eventually find you favorite even if it means tasting many, many cupcakes.

And that is NOT a bad thing.

Love,

Mommy